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Unity Game Development Blueprints

Unity Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran
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Unity Game Development Blueprints

Unity Game Development Blueprints

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By: John P. Doran
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Overview of this book

If you want to build enticing projects with Unity, this book is for you. Readers who are familiar with the basics of how to create simple projects in Unity will have an easier time.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter
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1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter
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Project overview
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Setting up the project
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Creating our scene
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Implementing player movement
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Shooting behavior
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Creating enemies
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Adding GameController to spawn enemy waves
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Particle systems for enemy explosion
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Adding in sound effects/music
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Adding in points, score, and wave numbers
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Publishing the game
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Summary
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Challenges
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2. Creating GUIs
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2. Creating GUIs
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Project overview
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Project setup
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Customizing the GUI
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Pausing the game
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Restarting the game
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Creating an Options menu
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Summary
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Challenges
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3. Side-scrolling Platformer
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3. Side-scrolling Platformer
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Project overview
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Setting up the project
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Tile-based level creation
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Creating our player
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Creating collectibles
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Keeping score
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Winning the game
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Summary
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Challenges
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4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments
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4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments
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Project overview
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The project setup
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Exterior environment – terrain
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Beautifying the environment – adding water, trees, and grass
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Creating our player
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Building the atmosphere
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Creating a flashlight
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Walking / flashlight bobbing animation
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Summary
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Challenges
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5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments
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5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments
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Project overview
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Project setup
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Importing assets
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Creating tiles
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Placing tiles with grid snapping
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Creating and placing props
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Lightmapping quickstart
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Summary
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Challenges
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6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI
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6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI
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Project overview
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Setting up the project
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Creating the shooting behavior
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Creating an enemy
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Enemy movement
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Damaging and killing enemies
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Using controller input
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Moving to other levels
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Summary
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Challenges
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7. Creating Save Files in Unity
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7. Creating Save Files in Unity
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Project overview
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Saving a high score
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Level editor – introduction
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Level editor – adding/removing walls at runtime
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Level editor – toggling editor, GUI, and selecting additional tiles
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Level editor – saving/loading levels to file
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Summary
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Challenges
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8. Finishing Touches
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8. Finishing Touches
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Project overview
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Setting up the build settings
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Customizing your exported project via the player settings
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Building an installer for Windows
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Summary
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Challenges
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9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System
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9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System
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Project overview
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Project setup
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Creating health bars
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Adding in text
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Working with buttons and anchors
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Challenges
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Index
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Index

Chapter 2. Creating GUIs

A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is way the players interact with your games. You've actually been using a GUI in the previous chapter (the Unity Editor) and also when interacting with your operating system. Without a GUI of some sort, the only way you'd be able to interact with a computer is a command prompt such as DOS or UNIX.

When working on GUIs, we want them to be as intuitive as possible and only contain the information that is pertinent to the player at any given time. There are people whose main job is programming and/or designing user interfaces and there are college degrees on the subject as well. So, while we won't talk about everything that we have to work with on GUIs, I do want to touch on the aspects that should be quite helpful when working on your own projects in the future.

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